apworld - p3ch6social

Development and transformation of social structures

Theme	How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Gender roles and relations	a ball game was played by the Olmecs, Mayans, and the Teotihuacan peoples.There has been no evidence that women had ever participated in this game. On Mochican pottery, one depicts a women working under the watchful eye of her male employer in a textile factory. This suggests that women were thought to be untrustworthy by their male counterparts.
Family and kinship	Hereditary nobility owned and controlled most of the land within the Mayan empire.
Racial and ethnic constructions	n.a
Social and economic classes	With the Olmecs, there were the commoners and the elite social groups. The commoners built all the buildings in the in the cities. They also did most of the elite's dirty work. A hereditary nobility owned most of the land. Large classes of slaves and peasants fed the people and provided physical labor for the whole clan. Teotihuacan's population consisted of cultivators, artisans, merchants, rulers, and priests.